Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 26, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 March 1877 — Page 12

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A WAIL.

BT ATICX MAT QU1WH. Sacred to the memory of M. F. M. fjome back to me, darling, come back from the "Where la silence the frost Jeweled Kranes doth wave; Vm weary, I want you, you have dared to go, .And leave me so lonely, when sorely you know The cruel, cold world ao loveless and drear Is darker without yon come back U me dear. Cms back, for the shadows of grief crash me now, And I long for the touch of your hand on my brow; There's no one to care for me, no one to lore, Oh! why did you leave me for realms above; Bat surely In heaven you can not rejoloe And list to the wall of my ngonlzed voloe. They bade me forget you ; as well bid tbe sun In diurnal rollings no longer to run ; As well tell the flowers no longer to bloom, As bid me forget the dread work of the tomb. Then come to me; surely my love stood the test; Of Its strength and endurance the Lord knowth best. Oh, dreary I'm waiting, the days are so long, But I struggle to light them with soul-eUrrlig song; Still restless and grieving my heart cries for you: Come back to me, darling, none e'er was so true; In love's Mibtle dreaming I strive to forge How futile the effort, how vain the regret; Bat fate sternly wills It. Then corae to me. dear. If bat for one moment my sorrow to cheer. Come to me, darling, nor leave me In woe, In allenoe I suffer; none other can know The pain found In living when death should be bliss, O monarch of horrors, I long for your kiss!. How often when leaning on love's heaving breast Tonr arms I imagine around me are jressed ; And the eyes that look tenderly down Into mine, By fancy and yearning are changed Into thine Ah, well, It Is over the longing and pain ; O'er, but In anguish to rend me again. The living and dead are so blended and true; That yoa are like him while he Is like you. The noblest, the bravest, devoted, so kind Tis enough to derange any passionate mind ; But come back to me, darling, still rings the refrain. Jfe'er to cease till out poors the free spirit's last strain. FOB THE LADIES. Weman vs. Woman's Rights. Bat to-night, undismayed By the fear of their tongue and its endless trade, Confusion well drink to that strong-minded band. "Who, unsexed and unlovely, the champions stand Of that novel monstrosity called Woman's Kignts! That the unemployed fancy of spinster de liznta. Who. despising the tender allurements of nome, To the fields of a broader ambition would roam: Who would rashly the boisterous tumult en Rage. Who scarcely unscathed may our stronger arm wage. And the desperate ventures of man's life to know Would his deference, homage and worship forego. Misguided aspirants! more cherished and dear wnen increasing me race ana enlarging you sphere. Better-bloom the fair flowers of the family tree Than wish vainly the rough, graceless bmnch to he. Like ourselves, to be tomed to the storm .ever more, Forsaking the calm where you blossomed be fore. Only whea from the breath of rough unage conceaiea Are the fairest of womanly graces revealed ; For as the ir Iraosa afar otf Derclevea The approach of rnde touch to Its sensitive leaves, And folds it from sight. so delicate, too. The true woman .Instinctively shrinks from the vietv At the thought of publicity, hiding her cnarma, .Submissive and tender, at home in our arms. H. W. Por at the Harvard Club Dinner. Miss Flora Blanchard. a school teacher a Mforth A dam a, .Massachusetts, conducted a funeral service last week ila selecting v husband at 17 a woman de- . aires good ooks; at 25, good habits; and at . 30,- tie man. At.lbe annual meeting in London of the Women's Educational .anion, of which her royaLbighness theJrincess Louise was again re-elected president. Dr. Lyon Playfair pre- ,. sided. J t was stated that about 1,000 women were availing themselves of the means proTided by the union for obtaining a higher education for women. Women are obtaining employment in England as ticket sellers at stations. On the .continent tlkey arenot only seen at railway stations, but almost invariably at the box offices of thwters. The work is congenial and light, and calls into -play the dextrous And nimble fingers that have made women o useful in our own treasury department. Both natural and artificial flowers are seen in profusion, not only on dresses, but also in entertaining room?. In Paris parlors seem to have suddenly been transformed into winter gardens. Pianos and writing tables are surrounded with gilt trelliswork, at the bottom of which there is a gardiniere of gilt metal, containing flowers .that are trained up the trelliswork; similar floral adornments are seen trailing over mantelpieces and along mirrors. At a large dinner jgiven recently, in that city in the official world, each lady found at the side of her plate a charming old colored Veneti n glass -of the lotus form, in which the- -as a TOM. Some 40 years ago, it is said, a lady called upon Mr. Longman, head of the publishing firm in Paternoster Row, ana pleaded: "Give me the subject of a book for which the world has a need, and I will write it for you." Mr. Longman asked, "Are you an author?" "I am a poet," was the reply, "but the wona does not want poems." cookery Cautiously the publisher rejoined: "I should advise you to do so if I were confident of your ability to write a good one." Well, years went by, and during those years cooks and epicures, and housewives in all parts of England were beseiged for receipts to be forwarded to the address of a certain lady. The lady's own flattering letters or persuasive speech elicited from the cooks themselves the information required, j enlisted the cooks' masters and mistresses

the publisher remarked, a little dubiosly. "Well, we want a good cookery book." 'Then," said the lady, "you advise me to write a cookery book 7

on her side, and the result of her exertions, carded on many yearsiwith equal resolute

ness and rood temper, was the "Modern Cookery in all Its Branches," published in 1845. which continues to hold its place in tbe esteem af housewives. Its author was Miss Action, who derived from her one great work an adequate provision for the re mainder of her life. But human nature is weak, especially feminine human nature in the adornment question, and vanity runs to the ears of the Cochin girls. Their earrings are wonderful tobehold. They are more like the bungs of a hogshead. At the tenderest years the lit tle children have great gashes cut in tne obes of their ears, tortoise shell plugs in serted to stretch them, and as they grow older the plugs are enlarged till, at maturity, they appear with things like snun-Doxes, tne size of a moderate pair of fists, almost always of tortoise shell, sometimes on ivory, plain for everyday wear, but for grand occasions elaborately inlaid with gold and silver, and on every grand occasion the earplugs are of solid gold weighing a pound or more apiece and carved in the most dis tracting way. 1 mine ire remaraea before that the Cochin jewelers are creatlv skilled in their trade, especially renouMe work, which is now getting so fashionable here, ana tney expena meir very oes . . . . T A. energies on tne earrings ior uie iocmn belies, it is wonaenui now iney wors wnn tinv forges and tiny blowpipes blown by tiny boys, enormous horn goggles and little hammers ana aammer. or son composition to form a basis, for their punching opera tion, and the purest gold and silver ana little bellows worked by their toes, t Ingers, toes, nose and eves snap and glint as they rapidly ply their tasK. t our annas, or iz cents, which is the regular cooly or day's wages for these hereditary skilled mechanics ii : 1 u : - K A lirom Vit is couiy, ur ujr a uuc, wukj u terra "coolies" for day laborers so hired), seems a trifling sum indeed for the fairy-like results of their artistic labor. Always serve food for the sick hot. Unless the plates are warmed, and the eatables served in a smoking hot condition, they will often fail to tempt the invalid s appetite, it is also an excellent plan to cut up a cutlet or steak, or piece of chicken, into small bits while it is in the kitchen, so as to prevent any extra exertion of the patient in eating 11. Minceu neei, muiion ur cuukcm, win make a toothsome dish for the sick room. But by this we do not mean the minced meat of the ordinary meal. Cut up the raw meat into very small bits and moisten it with a little beef or chicken tea; season it well and then let it stew only a few moments for the beef or mutton, but longer for chicken. Serve it on hot toast, and have the plates very warm, and it will usually give . A 1 2.1 . . gooa sausiacuon languid Bipcuic. In preparing dishes for the sick it is need ful to combine the strongest nourishment with the simplest seasoning, as they require food which will not need too much exertion of the digestive power. 8weet breads broiled to a nice brown, oysters roasted in tbe shell r plainly stewed, clara broth, and even calves' brains, are highly recommended as articles of diet which will give the most nu tritious food in the smallest quantities. All kinds of cruel are unpalatable to some per sons, but fortunately tastes differ and there are those who will take with a decided Telish large bowlfuls of flour, oat meal and even Indian meal porridge. Groats, however, are considered the most delicate of all such preparations, and if well made and flavored with a tablespoonful of old Jamaica or whis ky, with a little sugar added to it, is not a - ' i . a aisagreeaDie compound. FRAGMENTS OF SCIEXCE. It is said that Sir J. 0. Dalzell has a thriv ing sea-anemone in his aquarium, wbich was taken from the ocean in 1828. and is therefore a least twenty-eight years old. The writer who gives the fact also states that be has in his own aquarium sea-ane mones that are a dozen years old. lie like wise states that the water in one of his aquaria has not been changed for fifteen years, and in another for seventeen years, it is kept fresh by growing plants and by aeration. Basing his views on personal observation, Herr Von Schleintz is of the opinion that iu the Pacific tbe Arctic deep sea current crosses le equator in a southerly direction and meets the Antartic current only between the thirtieth and thirty-sixth degrees of south latitude. This is just the reverse of what takes place in the Atlantic, as ob servers hold that in the Atlantic the Antarc tic deep sea current passes the equator, run ning northward of the same to a consider able distance. The great clock at the south end of the crystal palace at Sydenham is now in work ing order, it is almost a counterpart -of tbe gieat Westminster clock, with the exception of the striking and chiming apparatus; and the dial is said to be the largest ever con structed, being 40 feet in diameter, or nearly 1,300 square feet in area. The hands, with their counterpoises, weigh nearly a quarter of a ton; the minute hand measures 19 feet in length, and moves half an inch at every beat of the pendulum. The distance traveled by the point of the minute hand is nearly four miles a week. During 17 days of observation the vacation was eight secends -only. The Netherlands zoological association es tablished in 186 a transportable station on the Dutch coast where anatomical, microscopical, physical, chemical and meterologicai studies may be carried on. A wooden house was constructed so as to be readily set up and again taken to pieces. This was furnished with every appliance for scientific workj with the exception microscopes and steel instruments. Early in July the house was transported to I (elder, the northern seaport of Holland, and situated on the top of the great dyke which there protects the low countries from the sea. For eight weeks work was carried on at the station.the members of the association improving the oj portunities afforded for studying the marine fauna of the North sea at that point, and making many interesting observations. The station was then taken down and carried back to Ieyden. It is decided to locate it for the ensuing summer in the neighborhood of Flushing. From statistics regarding the distribution of the flora of Europe, the curious conclusion is reached that those plants having seeds or fruit with special appendages to aid in their dispersion, are generally less widely scattered than those destitute of such helps. The single exception is in the case of seeds provided with a tuft of hair, technically termed coma, , which have a very broad range. The seeds of the willows are furnished with a coma, and so are the milkweeds. Dr. Gray states that these last plants, which are "the most comose-seeded of the higher orders," have not a wide range in North America. It is also found, from a study of the European flora, that plants whose flowers bear but a single seed are more broadly distributed than those bearing two or more seeds in each cell. Plants with albuminous seeds somewhat surpass in range the ex-albuminous, a singular fact, considering that ex-albuminous seeds have the longest known vitality, and best bear exposure to sea water. Large genera have a slightly greater dispersion than small ones, and variable species than those not especially so.

IF WE BAD BITT A DAT.

We should fill the hours with the sweetest things. If we had but a day : We should drink alone at the purest springs In our upward way: We should love with a life time's love In an hour If the hours were few : We should rest, not for dreams, but for fresher power To be and to do. We should guide our wayward or wearied wills Bv the clearest llzht: We should keep our eyes on the heavenly hills ir tney lay in sight: We should trample the pride and the discon tent Beneath our feet: We should take whatever a good God sent With a truBt complete. We should waste no moments In weak regret If the day were but one. If what we remember and what we forget Went out with the sun : We should be from our clamorous selves set free To work or to pray. And to be what the Father would have us be. If we had but a day. ALL SORTS. The Sand o Dee. Oh, Mary, go and call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee: The western gale blew wild and dark with loam, And all alone went she. The western tide crept up the strand, And round and round the strand: And o er and o er the strand so rar as eye oould see The blinding mist came down and hid the land. And never home came she. Oh ! is it weed, or fish, or floating hair? A tress of golden hair. A drowned maiden's hair above the nets at sea: Was never a salmon that shone so fair Among the stakes on Dee. They rowed her In across the rolling foam. The cruel crawling foam, the cruel hungry roam. To her grave beside the sea. But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home. Across the sands of Dee. George Klngsley. The passengers on a Kentucky railroad train became so interested in an eloping couple that, when the father of the girl came aboard at a station to take her home, they forcibly ejected him. An intimate friend of Mr. Longfellow re marks: "I have beard him make but one al lusion to the great grief of his life. We were speaking of Schillers nne poem .The Ring of Polycrates,' and he said: 'It was just so with me I was too happy. I might fancy the gods envied me if I could fancy heathen gods.' President Elliot, of Harvard college. Is in favor of taxing the parents of children who go to high schools to pay a certain propor tion of the cost of maintaining them. He and open the high schools to all who could not anord to pay, but be would impose a tax of $40 or $50 a year upon tbi children of wealthy parents. An English factory inspector says that "cleaning machinery in motion continues to lead to very numerous and painful mutilations." In the half year ending April, 1876, vzu persons were killed in England by fac tory accidents, 4SI amputations were neces sary, there were 260 fractures of limbs or bones and 2,193 other injuries in au 2.4Ü7 males and I7J females. The little town of Offenburgh, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany, has re cently erected a statue and monament to Sir Francis Drake, as "the immortal introducer of the potato into hurope." The brave old admiral of Queen Elizabeth has at last had his services to the garden recognized by a grateful people, who thus show their rever ence for his good deeds. Professor George L. Vose, of the depart ment of civil engineering at Bowdoin col lege, says he can put his hand on one rail road the managers of which are assuming a fearful responsibility in running trains over old wooden bridges which have been con demned for years, but which are under the inspection of no competent authority. The Springfield Republican demands the name of the company. In looking over a volume of Selections from Macaulay, the query rose why so many readers who have never read a page of this historian s works are sharp buyers of the new novels. In the whole range of English literature there is nothing more engrossing to the attention or more splendid to the eye of the imagination than Macaulay's historical works. One who has time to read novels ought to be ashamed to confess that he has never read Macaulay or Kingsley. The long promised authobiography of Harriet Martmeau is to be published by Osgood early in March. It will make two large volumes in octavo, and will abound in reminiscences and portraits of her con temporaries. Miss Martineau had some rich personal experiences in America, the record of wbich we may expect to find in these volumes. Another notable publication will be the life of Charles Sumner, which is promised by Roberts Brothers.. The Cincinnati Enquirer prints the follow ing bit of history in answer to the in3uiry of a subscriber: The expression, 'Pull own your vest," was first heard in this country in 1703. A New England deacon named Fnilklns had a vest which was too short for him. When in a heated debate or controversy his vest would work up under bis chin. 1'eople who were listening to his discourse Tsould interrupt him and tell him to pull down his garment, and in this way the expression came Into use as a means of checking bores. Mottoes are in vogue in Faris on everything that will admit of their use, stationery being a'favorite place. For example, paper for the use of widows during the early days of their bereavement, in the design of dying embers round which flourish is the faint smoke struggling upward, a Latin text that, liberally translated becomes. "I weep because he died, while I must live." A lady, celebrated alike for her beauty and her inconstancy, has had her lemon-colored note paper engraved with a weather cock in one corner, about which are assembled the four winds, while the shield below pithily remarks in Latin, "if the winds did not alter the weather cock would never change." Another young lady has selected for daily use a flying swallow bearing the scroll, "Tour eher diet mieux." "Atlas," in his contribution to the London World, says: "Doubts were naturally entertained whether the pictures sent to the international exhibition at Philadelphia might not be injured by the double voyage across the Atlantic. The extreme heat of the weather in the United States might have affected them, and the vibration of the steamer in which they were transported might have had an equally bad effect Fortunately, no appreciable damage has been done, and Mr. Jopling deserves no small credit for this. He succeeded better in taking good care of the pictures than in persuading the United States commissioners to agree with him in all things. He was aim' ply an accomplished artist, whereas they

were mere ly commissioners. Among those sent were the Royal Academy diploma pic-

lures, inese were snown at rnuaaeipuia for the first time in public They comprise such works as those by Constable, Turner and Wilkie, and, as a whole, are the most representative and characteristic specimens of the English school. Perhaps the council of the Royal Academy may think that the time has now come for these pictures being seen by the English public If they can be exhibited at Philadelphia they may be exhibited in London. A family on State n Island are trying an interesting experiment, the more interest ing because it seems as if it might be attended with some danger. Some time since a 10 f ear old girl of the family was bitten in the in by a Spitz dog the pet of the petticoats. The little girl took hydrophobia, died in 34 hours and has been saiely laid away in tne family tomb. The Survivors of the family have some curiosity to see how soon the dog will show symptoms of hydrophobia, ana resolved to let him live and develop the malady that is in him. At last accounts the dog was alive and well, ana he bias lair to live to a good old age if the neighbors will let him. The experiment has already proceeded far enough to show that the dog is not diseased at all, that his bite is deadly neverthe less, and be is ready to prove it upon anybody who doubts it There is pluck, any how, in that Staten Island family. A very exciting incident took place a few weeks ago at the Garden of Plants in Paris. There was a great crowd aroun i tbe bear's cave, and as usual, many nurses had chil dren in their arms. All at once one or them uttered a terrible cry. A five year-old baby ehe held on the railing, so that it might see the animals better, had fallen into the cave. There was a terrible fright among all the spectators, and tbe expectation was that tne child would soon be eaten up; but no such thing took place. The two bears looked at the child in astonishment but as though they were ashamed to attack such a helpless victim, they did not move, bo far so good; but now the question was to take up the child. Who would dare descend in the den? A gentleman offered to do so. The guard' ians passed a rope around his body and let him down. A sigh of relief hailed him as he safely brought up the child. Strange to say, the man who bad thus exposed his life for the child of a stranger went off so rapidly that his name could not be ascertained. The London Medical Press and Circular says: "it would seem mat mat portion oi humanity which enjoys the luxury cf wear ing clothes is imperiled at both extremities bv the tricks of competing tradesmen. Not long since we heard much of the risks o: wearing pink stockings, which had been found to subject the owners to violent eruptions about the ankles, and to involve serious inconveniences, if not actual dan gers. It was then discovered that the desagremen of the dandy-socked gentry arose from the use of analine in the Pink dve. We now hear that the other end of our bodies corporate is threatened with the same infliction, from tbe same cause A shoemaker in Stettin had bought a felt hat from a well known firm, Soon after wearing it though the hat exerted no pressure, headache set in, with frontal swelling, followed by a pustular eruption. The eyes also became so in flamed that they closed, and the swelling began to spread to the lower part of the face. It was evident that these symptoms were due to the wearing of the hat and the lat ter having been submitted to examination by a chemist it was ascertained that the brown leather lining was colored with pois onous aniline. Let us hope that aniline hat linings will be made contraband, for an attack on our crania is a far more serious mat ter than on our toes; and henceforth it is only those whose lining is on the outside of ineir neaas mat win patronize me auracuv decorations of Stettin. Jewels. The classification of jewels by the author arranges all precious stones in three classes. The first comprises a single stone the diamond which is composed only of carbon. The second comprises all jewels the base, of whose composition is alumina. The list o these is much more varied than might be supposed, since it contains stones as varied in appearance and color as the s ipphire, the ruby, the Balas ruby, the Spinel ruby, the topaz, tne emerald, the beryl, the aqua marine, the cymophane and the tur quoise. Alumina is the base the common red and yellow clay which is found everywhere in the utmost abundance, and the only mark of distinction known to chemists between the common clay and the sapphire or the emerald is the fact that tne latter are crystallize j. and con tain traces of metallic oxides, which give color to the stones. Tbe name corundum is applied by mineralogists to all varieties o crystallized alumina, whatever their color. Colorless corundum is so brilliant as sometimes to be mistaken for a diamond, but it may be readily distinguished by its double refraction and by its small specific grav ity. The corundums are often exceed iiiily valuable, rubies of perfect luster and purity being of greater value than diamonds. The ruby ranks first for price and beauty among all colored stones. It is o the pure red of the spectrum, and next, after the sapphire, is the hardest of precious siones, always excepting uie uiamonci. Charles Achard, the highest authority in France in all that concerns the traffic in colored stones, remarks that weight has not the same effect in their case as in that of the diamond. Every diamond, from the very smallest specimen upward, has its value, like gold and silver, according to weight; but in the case of rubies and other gems, the little specimens have hardly any value, and these stones only begin to be appreciated at the moment when their weight withdraws them from the common lot, and assures at once their rarity and high price. Wben a perfect ruby of five carets enters the markrt a price will be offered for it double the price of a perfect diamond of the same weight; and if a ruby reaches tbe weight of ten carets, it will bring triple the price of a diamond of the same weight (from $3.000 to $4,000). The carbuncle of the ancients is the same as our modern ruby. The most fantastic qualities were formerly ascribed to these wonderful stones. The carbuncles served to furnish light to certain great serpents or dragons wben old age had enfeebled their eyes; they constantly carried these magical stones between their teeth, only dropping them when it was necessary to eat and drink. According to St Epiphanius the carbuncle has not only the property of shining brilliantly In darkness, but its light is of a nature so extraordinary that nothing can arrest it, so that it shines, for instance, through vestments with undiminished fire. Clotting StenH. Washington Dispatch. There is a perfact rush of business at the office of the pardon clerk in the department of justice. It is the custom to pardon all criminals at the close of an administration that can make out a good case, so as to leave a clean record for the incoming man. Joyce's pardon has been recommended by District Attorney Bliss, and will be surely made out this week. The great majority of applications for pardon are for ordinary violations of law.

TBE DATS ARE GBOWMQ LONG.

Along the blight horizon-line Dividing earth from orient skiea. Wo look: more northward for the sign Of light each morn as darkness dies ; Yon wood, toward which the sun slow creeps, Will soon renound with chirping song Throughout Its still and solemn deeps The days are growing long. A week ago, the sunrise blaze Left far to shadowy north yon spire; This Sunday morn, the first bright rays Its belfry lights with gleam of fire. That, shining through Its window, seems An eye prophetic of the throng Of Joys with which the vision teems When days are growing long. Life's day is growing long. We scan. With curious, hopeful, awe-struck gaze. Life 'b dim horizon-line, that man Must passere treading heavenly ways, Our sun each day the zenith nears. We sit in memory's realm of song. Like diamonds soon will gleam earth's tears, Life's day Is growing long. Earl Marble, In Folio. FOR SUNDAY. Lent Is this a fast to keep The larder lean And clean From fat of veals and sheep? Is It to quit the dish Oi flesh, yet still Tonil The platter high with fish? Is it to fast an hour, Or ragged go, Or show A downcast look and sour? No t Tis a fast to dole Thy sheaf of wheat And meat Unto thy hungry soul; It Is to fast from strife And old debate And hateTo clrcumc'ss thy life. To show a heart grief rent; To starve thy sinNot bin And that's to keep thy Lent. Closet duty speaks out most sincerity. lie prays with a witness who prays without witness. It was a saying of Bede that "he who comes unwillingly to church, shall one day go unwillingly to hell.' It is the greatest measure of grace that ushers in the greatest measure of joy and comfort to a believing heart. God, who hath done singular things for our good, may indeed justly expect that we i ta i i r 1 snouia ao Binguiar things ior nia giory. At the consecration of Trinity church in Boston, Edward Everett Hale, James Freeman Clarke, Rufus Ellis and other Unitarian olergymen received the communion from the hands of tbe Episcopal bishop. The Romish church in France approves o lay preaching. The count de Mun and M. de Cissev are the most prominent preachers. Tbe latter aims especially to accomplish a re form in the observance of the Sabbath. He has the pope's sanction and that of the chief French clergy. The Methodist ministers in New York have been tailing about itineracy, which is the perpetual source of discomfort in that body. One clergyman was decidedly in fa vor of having a minister who has inveigled a congregation into building a costly church obliged to stay until it is paid for. In all Buddhist temples a tall and broad leaved lily stands directly on the front o the altar. Its idea is as beautiful as its workmanship. It represents that just as the pure white nower may grow out of mire and filth and blossom into loveliness, so may the heart of man raise ltselt above the wick edness and corruption of the world unto a state of spotless purity. The nearer the kingdom of heaven ap pears, the less is the force by which the world draws and holds the believer. Attraction is in proportion to the quantity of matter and the nearness of the object; and so the globe itself, with all its wealth of gold yea, though it were solid gold itself and all to be mine, does not attract me with any force, if I live above it and hard by the throne of God. An aped man arose in one of Mr. Mnodv' prayer meetings in Boston and asked for rayers for an unconverted wife. "How ong have you been a Christian?" asked the evangelist "Thirty-five years." was the re ply. "And she not converted in all that time?" was the quiet remark of Mr. Moody The man was touched with the reply, and before the meeting closed asked for prayers tor himself. Mr. Spurgeon speaking of clerical throats says: "1 have beard surgeons amrm tha dissenting bronchitis differs from tbe church of hngland article. There is an ecclesiastic al twang" which is much admired in tha establishment a sort of steeple-in-the-throat grandeur an aristocratic, theologic, par sonic, supernatural, infra-human mouthing or language and rolling over of words. "We know so little of that which is near us and with which we are most conversan daily, is it strange that the infinite and eternal things of the heavenly state shoul be hidden from our eyes and held for future revelation? What we know not now. we shall know hereafter. Blessed is he who has not seen yet believes, and, while wait ing, is content. Light is given for each step we take, and by and by glory, when we shall know even is we are known." The Moravian, one of the most ancien and faithful churches in Christendom, has lately sunered severe losses through hum canes in the West Indies and on the Mos quito coast Scores of houses have been swept away; schools, mission establishments and churches have been wholly destroyed and they are la a state of great pecuniary embarrassment The case oi this poor but laitumi oouy oi mrisuans appeals strongly to puimc uoer&iiiy. From a Catholic exchange we cut the fol lowing item: In a simple village Catholic church at Kaddatz, in Prussia, a most re markable pulpit can be seen. Besides its exquisite beauty and rich gilding, it has quite a historical interest It is the triumphal chariot of King John Sobieskie, the hero who delivered Vienna in 1683 from the besieging Turks. The chariot was found among the s noils left by the conquered Mussulmans, Afterwards it was presented by Field Marshal von Kleist to the village church, after which the necessary alterations were made to change it to a pulpit. An Appropriate Order. . New Orleans Republlcan.J A sugar-maker, who mightas well be called Onessmus Smith as anything else, died re-, cently in one of our country parishes. He was not long ill, and the day before he died he had erdered a bill of goods through his commission merchant In New Orleans. The news of the man's death flew on the wings of the wire, but the requisition for supplies came along in a slow steamboat way and arrived two or three days afterward. A portion of the order was sent to a wholesale drug house for an article used largely in sugar-making. It was a well-managed drug house and its order clerk below was in the habit of communicating through a speaking tube with the bookkeeper above before air--

ne an order, the obiect of these shooting

whispers back and forth through the tin communicator being to ascertain if the per son ordering the goods is entiuea to creaiw n tne case we refer to tne order clerc shouted np, "How's accounts of Onessrans Smith?" And tbe information was slid down, "Accounts 0. K., but we've advices that Smith's dead." "That's al'. right" dd the man below, "he's sent for ten barrels of sulphur." TUE STATE. Salem wants a town hall. Small-pox is raging at Elkhart Dublin is afflicted with burglars. Brook ille boasts of 417 males over the age of 2L The Albion post office has been burglar ized again. A party for the Black Ilills is being oreanized at Auburn. The new city map of Lafayette gives gen eral satisfaction. A lodre of good templars has been organ ized at Brookville. Petitions for the postmastership of Fort W'ayne are being circulated. The Northeastern Indiana M. E. confer ence meets at Blufft on April 4. Lafayette Courier: The next county fair will surpass those of previous years. An excursion party will leave Terre Haute on the 1st of April for New Orleans. Nine divorces were granted at the Febru ary term of the Laporte circuit court The 8uperintendency of the Shelby county asylum and poor farm changed hands yesterday. The Berrien county sheriff has four female boarders, and has no trouble keeping them. Wabash county has a full fledged centenarian, who was 100 years old on the 15th day of November. The citizens living along the "ditch" on the Wabash still persist in trying to keep it open. Bad job. Dr. John M. Smily, the oldest physician in Johnson county, died last Sunday morning at his residence in Franklin. Fort Wayne Gazette: Fifteen of the ap plicants for teachers' licences last Satnrdav ailed on the oral examination. New Albany has three saloons for every church in the city and yet boasts that she u "the city of churches" of Indiana. St Joseph county has a good jail but not a very good jailer, if we should judge of the number of prisoners escaped lately. Kendallville Standard: Epidemic influenza prevails in this vicinity at this time. Several children have died of the disease. The safe of Thomas C. Wem nock, at Morris town, Shelby county, was blown open Monday night and about $3C0 in money and $50 in postage stamps taken. Greenfield Democrat: Farmers from all parts of the county give a good report of the growing wheat crop. They all unit in saying that the prospect was never finer at this, season. The grand jury of Jefferson county have just failed to find an indictment against the defaulting treasurer and auditor, Jack man and Gale. Yet the people's money is gone all the same. Fire was Tuesday placed in tbe furnaces of the bottle-house of the New Albany Star gla?s works, and work in this department will commence March 6, giving employment to 150 hands. Colonel A. B. Wade, postmaster of South Bend, was accidentally drowned on Wednesday in the Kankakee river, while out duck hunting. He has held the oflice of postmaster since 180$. Lafayette Courier: The game of chess by postal card between four citizens of Attica, and four of West Iebanon has been in progress since December 22, and will be completed within three weeks. Wabash Tlain Dealer: Cholera and lung disease continue to make sad havoc among tbe hogs in our county. They are dying at such a rate as to quite discourage many farmers in any attempt to raise them. New Albany Corresiondent of the Louisville News: A Mew Albany woman who has a husband of high respectability has fallen into such habits of intoxication that she has frequently to be led borne ofi . the streets. Truly wine is a mocker. Kendallville Standard: A writ of replevin and search warrant was placed in Marshal Browand's hands last week, for the purpose of recovering a usan's wife. I Mli gent search was made in numerous and sundry places, including "across the creek," but the missing wife could not be found. Two young women attempted to cowhide a man in broad daylight on the public street in Islington, Scott county, yesterday. They bad a lawsuit in which the ladies came out second best, hence they prepared themselves with cowhides and made a grand rush for tbe man, who seized a club and knocked one to the pavement, when he was interfered with to prevent serioas results. The l ight before the woman called at the residence of the gentleman, in the country, and severely beat his wife. Great excitement prevails, with fears of something worse, as the female parties are desperate. This is the way things are run at New Albany: Last month the police made 36 arrests, most of them for drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and 58 stragglers slept at the station house. There were 4 fires and 1 false alarm. Loss sustained about $1,500. The county clerk issued 20 marriage licenses. The township trustee furnished wood to the poor which cost $.VX), delivered. It cost $88.44 to run the soup house, $05.55 were given out in orders and $3.25 was epent for fuel for the soup house, making total ot $717.24 for the expense of the poor during the month of February. It cost about $300 to run the county poor house during the month. The little town of Tyner City, about seven miles from Walkerton, was the scene of a brutal murder, the particulars of which are about these: A man named Al Smith came' to town from the country, and after getting full of tanglefoot wanted to whip some one and after knocking around town all afterl noon he went into a saloon where Burt or Albert. Broderick was bar tenter, and picked a quarrel with him. It was made up before the parties came to blows, and Broderick treated Smith. Smith then went to a table at one side of the room where others wera sitting, and joined in a game of cards. While sitting there Broderick, unobserved by him, went behind the bar and prn rinu iimrt v vslipped up behind Smith and dealt him two ucavy diows over me bead. Smith reeled from his chair and Hiorl Broderick left the place and has not yet been arrested.